All cats are grey definitely...it's so f****** sad. Specially this "I never thought that I would find myself". I remembering listening it in the bad times. And indeed it makes you feel worst...like if you want to cry or hide...

Definitely one of the highlights of The Cure's career

I never thought that I would find myselfIn bed amongst the stonesThe columns are all menBegging to crush meNo shapes sail on the dark deep lakesAnd no flags wave me home

In the cavesAll cats are greyIn the cavesThe textures coat my skinIn the death cellA single noteRings on and on and on

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Strangers passing in the street, by chance two separate glances meet and I am you and what I see is me...

that's the cure song for me that's pouring out with sheer and pure sadness, in every way, both lyrically and musically. and for me it's also loaded with some personal meaning from very long ago, that's all. it's a plunge...

"hey hey! just one more and i'll walk away allthe everything you win turns to nothing todayand i forget how to move when my mouth is this dry..."

it also has one of the most beautiful lines i think robert ever wrote:

i think there are 'sad songs' and 'songs about sad things' - and i think the latter one is one of the areas where the cure always excelled. and the range of those 'sad things' is very broad so... anyway, as we very well know people (critics...) used to say they were "miserable", maybe just because they missed seeing the difference between these two... because it's completely on the contrary, they were always extremely nuanced and delicate in this matter!

but it's interesting, to observe the balance: for instance 'pictures of you'. it is a song about something very very sad: "if only i'd thought of the right words..." - needs no more explaining.but musically it is just so full of the light. the light of the memory... so it is a radiant, almost shimmering song. but at the same time that's not a promise of anything, it's lyrically clear that it's without any real hope (of going back). 'out of this world' is a bit similar but more resigned, and the "subject is not as subjective" as in 'pictures of you'. and they are others.

and just compare it with something like 'cold'.... or 'faith'.... or...

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Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine

But The Same Deep Water As You.... it just really is the most miserable song I've ever heard. It makes me so emotionally involved; just hearing it makes me feel terrible sadness. A lot of Cure songs can make me sad, but only The Same Deep Water As You can wreck me so thoroughly.

And I really wouldn't be surprised if Robert DID cry during The Same Deep Water As You. I sing along to most Cure songs at home, and even to me, someone who didn't write it, it can bring such emotion....

It's probably the most beautiful song ever written, the most powerful. It's probably my favourite Cure song, too. You all know how great that means it is.